Christine McDougall

I work one to one with founders and executives who have built something real, and who want the leadership and the enterprise behind it to be as sound as they are.

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Founder, Syntropic World. Author: The Beauty of Beginnings.
https://syntropic.world

Looking for help with how your enterprise is designed: decision rights, incentives, power, trust or money? That begins with the Enterprise Stewardship Diagnostic, not a coaching conversation.

Are you a successful, high performing leader, business owner or executive who is questioning your work, your life, or your relationships?

Maybe you are questioning what you are doing, or why you do not feel as happy as you thought you should. Maybe the relationships you have no longer meet your deepest desires. Or perhaps you have hit a breakdown point, with drama and crisis all around you.

Are you seeking something deeper, beyond the traditional trappings of success? Meaning. Relevance. Purpose.

Imagine your life with intimate relationships built on honesty, integrity and trust. Imagine your business having a purpose that inspires you every single day, even on the hard days. Imagine knowing you matter, and that your work is making the kind of difference you feel proud of.

Here is what I believe most high-achieving people want, whether or not they say it out loud.

To be loved and to love. To feel they matter and to matter. To do work that fills their cup - financially, emotionally, spiritually and ethically. To become the type of leader, parent, and friend they long for. To make wise choices aligned with their deepest values. To build self-managed, responsible teams that do not need hand-holding. And to be held to account, lovingly yet directly, so they can become the best version of themselves.

This is what I have supported my clients to achieve.

Most of my clients are high-performing executives and founders, often in real estate or running a business they've built themselves into something real. You've already proven you can build. What you're facing now isn't a tactics problem. It's the deeper reckoning that catches up with every successful builder eventually: What is this actually for? Who am I becoming while I build it? Is the life underneath the success the one I actually want?

This is for people with high integrity and deep care for the people around them, who are honest enough to admit that success alone hasn't answered the biggest questions - meaning, purpose, what the next stage of their life and leadership actually requires. The relationships we build are genuine and enduring, often spanning years, and cover everything from the business to the deeply personal.

If you know it is time for the next stage of your life to begin, where success is on your terms, where relationships become extraordinary, where your business moves to a higher order, then consider working with me.

The end goal is to become a better leader, parent, and friend, including a friend to yourself. Where your money and your success take on new meaning and purpose.

The best testimony to my work is that my clients stay working with me, in one form or another, for years. They come for a crisis and stay because of what the relationship makes possible.

This is the deep, 1:1 arc of my work. Inner transformation and enterprise redesign, held as one arc. Below are the ways we can work together, from a single conversation to a full partnership. If you're not sure which one fits, start with the call.

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If we are a good match, we will know. I will recommend how we work together based on where you are and what you need. We begin.

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Packages

Tier 1 — A fit conversation.

This is a 40-minute conversation to find out if we are a genuine match, nothing more, nothing less. I work with a small number of people at a time, and I am selective because the work requires real trust and commitment on both sides. If you are a successful leader facing a team, business, or life crisis and you are ready to look honestly at what is not working, including your own contribution to it, I want to hear from you. If we are the right fit, we will both know. If we are not, I will tell you that too.

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Tier 2 — Ongoing Partnership (choose based on where you are) - Monthly Coaching & Mentoring (2 sessions/month · no onboarding required · steady, ongoing partnership)

(2 sessions/month · no onboarding required · steady, ongoing partnership)

For leaders who want a consistent partner in their corner, not a crisis response. Leadership, transitions, accountability, strategy, team building, enterprise design - all the human stuff, worked through on a regular rhythm.

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Tier 2 — Ongoing Partnership (choose based on where you are) - 6 Sessions, Used Your Way Over 6 Months (flexible cadence · book as needed)

(flexible cadence · book as needed)

For leaders who want the same depth of support but not a fixed monthly rhythm. Book three sessions back to back, then pause. Use them however your life actually moves.

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Tier 2 — Ongoing Partnership (choose based on where you are) - 1 Team Session + 1 Leadership Session per Month (for leaders building self-managed teams)

(for leaders building self-managed teams)

For leaders whose next bottleneck is their team, not just themselves. One session works directly with your team on coherence, accountability, and communication; one session works with you on the leadership skill to hold it. Built for creating high-performing, self-managed teams — so you can deliver your best work and still have a life.

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Tier 3 — When Things Have Gone Sideways - Get Through the Big Speed Bump - (4 sessions/month · no contract, end anytime)

Shit has hit the fan. You're drowning in people issues, your team's gone rogue, or your personal life is unravelling alongside your business. This is concentrated, fast support — you won't get away with your BS, and you'll come out the other side as the leader you're capable of being, with a life intact. No contract. End anytime, or shift to a different package.

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Tier 3 — When Things Have Gone Sideways - Emerge Through Emergency (no time limit · daily or as needed)

For the moments when everything as you knew it has fallen apart, and it feels like there's little hope. You're emotionally, spiritually, or physically broken and need someone in your corner immediately — as a guide, champion, and rigorous, no-BS coach. Available on the timeline your crisis actually requires.

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Tier 4 — The Full Rebuild - Revolutionise Your Business — 12 Months to Get It Done (12-month working partnership)

For leaders exhausted by the drama, the team dysfunction, the lack of accountability - including their own - and who know, underneath it, that this can't continue if the business (and the people in it) are going to thrive. This isn't a coaching program with a fixed curriculum. It's a twelve-month partnership to transform how your business operates and how you lead it.

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Tier 5 — For Clients I've Already Worked With - One 90-Minute Session per Month (returning clients)

A safe space to talk, gain perspective, get feedback, learn new tools and models, and be held to your best - for clients who've already done the deeper work with me.

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Tier 5 — For Clients I've Already Worked With - Single Session (returning clients)

Strategy. Tools. Challenges set. Witnessing. Piercing through the noise and the BS. I've got you.

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Testimonials

My life was on a divergent path when I met Christine. Young and ambitious, I hadn’t found purpose. Christine and I worked on what mattered. As a human being before a business person.

Erudite but worldly, Christine provides a holistic view and has an uncanny knack for getting to the root cause of any challenge that individuals and organisations encounter. Few people see the world through the lens that Christine does. She is a part of the revolution - the push towards human connection instead of rejoicing in the transaction.

She is a coach, mentor, disruptor - but more importantly, she is a friend. She cares. I cannot endorse Christine more emphatically

- Jason Andrew CEO | Ray White Queensland

I have had the pleasure of working with Christine since 2007. She has been instrumental in helping me navigate pivotal crossroads in my life both in my personal life and my business. The ability to have someone highly capable to safely steer me through such important “fork in the road” decisions or times of crisis has been invaluable to me and I will forever be thankful for the comfort in being able to seek her counsel and guidance. I was recommended to Christine by another high-achieving individual and I am daily in their debt for connecting me with her.

- Sean Hughes

Christine has been instrumental in my personal journey as a leader in business - one of the most profound journeys I’ve ever embarked on, and one that forces you to hold a mirror up to yourself everyday, something Christine is really talented at helping you work through. I can honestly say I wouldn’t be the person I am today without the work I did with Christine.

- Daniel Argent, CEO and Co-founder, Urban X

“Christine has the rare ability to hold a flame that burns all the impurities and bullshit. Her insights are illuminating and incisively transformational, delivered with warmth and yet strong candor. If you’re on the verge of making a major crucial decision, and you want to get it right, while remaining in integrity with what actually matters to you, you need her by your side as your confidant.”

- Amir A. Nasr, founder of Assertive & Co.

What a breath of fresh air! In a world where most teachers, coaches, mentors and guru figures seem to be more worried about political correctness and blind "positivity" than integrity and grounded truth, Christine is worth her weight in gold. She conducts her coaching sessions with sincere honesty, authenticity, superb communication, and most importantly, for me, Heart. She really cares about the world and the people she is in relationship with and you feel it. After a month with Christine, I have a greater sense of purpose, am more creative, and truly feel empowered to help shepherd the cultural change I'd like to see in the world. Thank you Christine!

- Michael Richardson Project Manager, Evolving Wisdom, USA

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Frequently Asked Questions

Who do you work with?

Mostly founders and executives. People with high integrity and deep care, who are honest enough to admit that success hasn't answered the biggest questions: meaning, purpose, what leadership and life actually require at this next stage. If that's you, and you're ready to look honestly at what isn't working - including your own contribution - I want to hear from you.

Is this a big investment?

Yes. This is not a $97 course or a single session that fixes everything. It's premium, high-touch, ongoing work, priced accordingly. My clients invest because what changes - in their business, their leadership, their relationships - is worth many times the cost. If that's a real stretch for you right now, this isn't the right season for us to work together. If you've built something and know it's time for the next stage, book the call and we'll talk honestly about fit and investment. PS. I do offer many highly affordable (or even no fee) programs and tools. You can find them at syntropic.world. Or, sign up for Syntropic Contemplations to get a useful article every week.

Do you work in person, by phone or by Zoom?

If you are local, we can meet. Otherwise, I work by phone or Zoom depending upon your preference. The majority of my clients work with me by phone, as they have busy lives and are often driving. I have been known to take local clients walking and talking.

How long do people typically work with you?

The majority of my clients have worked with me for years. Some for decades. Our relationship is profoundly trusting. I do become the person in the corner who has your back and will challenge you when needed, with infinite care.

Do you work with my team?

Yes, most of my clients bring me in to work with their team. We create team coherence, high accountability and responsibility, train advanced communication skills, work with conflict, and move toward self-managed teams. When the question is how the enterprise itself is designed, that begins with the Enterprise Stewardship Diagnostic.

Do you do conflict mediation?

Yes, I have facilitated hundreds of mediation sessions with partners, teams and alliances.